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Forerunners Mukden Opium Destroy Certificates Manchukuo Manchukuo Marriage Registration Tax Harbin & Mukden Municipal Revenues Kwantung
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Manchurian "Wheat Design" Revenue Stamps The Wheat issue of 1925 onwards is the successor to the Great Wall series, like the Great Wall issue it also had five values 1c, 2c, 10c, 50c and 1 dollar. The design is fairly simple with a central cartouche containing the characters reading vertically 印花税票 Revenue Stamp 中華民國 Republic of China. The central cartouche is framed between two stems of wheat and it is these that give the series its name. It is important to recognise that there are two distinct issues. The national issue supplied by the ROC government featured the value shown at the top and the province only shown at the bottom. The local issue, controlled by the Old Marshall 張作霖 Zhang Zuolin (Chang Tso-lin) included the value in a cartouche at the base. The national issue was printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Peking, Perf 14 and the printers of the local issued are unknown and perforations vary widely.
National Issue Local Issue Unlike the Great Wall issue the Wheat series were tied to different provinces, with the name of the province being shown in the two square or circular panels at the bottom of each stamp. With regard to Manchuria, four provinces are known to be represented in these stamps, Fengtian, Kirin, Heilungkiang and Jehol; of these only the stamps for Kirin went into transitional use and were locally overprinted Great Manchukuo. Designs and colours are slightly different for some provinces.
Kirin - 1c Blue Green, 2c Orange Red,
10c Red, 50c Blue and 100c Red, Western value centre bottom.
There was a considerable overlap between
the Great Wall series and the Wheat issue and it is possible to find
both stamps in use on the same document. To see a selection wheat
revenues on original documents - click
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| National Issue - The above set appeared early in 1926 to replace a crudely printed local issue these are rare and hard to find. | ||||||||
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| The Kirin Wheat Wedding Stamp. Needed for marriage registration, note the stylized green character 囍"xi" meaning double lucky or double happiness. This is the only value overprinted in this way, registration cost 40c so marriage certificates usually have four of these stamps. Marriage certificate tax was introduced in 1917. | ||||||||
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| National Issue Heilungkiang 黑龍江 Wheat issue, note the additional roundel to contain the extra character. This issue is thought to date from early 1926. No control chops have been noted on this issue so far. They had a short life and were replaced with the local Kirin Wheat stamps due to the rise of Old Marshall 張作霖 Zhang Zuolin (Chang Tso-lin). | ||||||||
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| National Issue Fengtian County (Mukden) 奉 天 Wheat issue. This is the only issue and is thought to date from early 1926. No control chops have been noted on this issue so far and these stamps are usually hard to find. They had a short life and were replaced with the local Kirin Wheat stamps due to the rise of Old Marshall 張作霖 Zhang Zuolin (Chang Tso-lin). | ||||||||
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